William McDonough: Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
Blaine Brownell: Transmaterial 2: A Catalog of Materials That Redefine Our Physical Environment
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Richard Ogle: Smart World: Breakthrough Creativity And the New Science of Ideas
Seth Godin: The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)
Seth Godin: Small Is the New Big: and 183 Other Riffs, Rants, and Remarkable Business Ideas
A growling place is a really cute story about a girl's adventure with her teddy bear. Written and beautifully illustrated by Thomas Aquinas Maguire, ID designer. We gave two of them to our friend's little ones as Christmas gifts and they absolutely loved it!
We-think:
Innovation by the masses not for the masses.
"If the 20th century marked the rise of mass consumerism, one feature of the 21st century will be the rise of the mass participation economy: innovation by the masses not for the masses. Now innovation and creativity are becoming mass activities, dispersed across society. We-think is an effort to understand this new culture, where these new ways of organizing ourselves have come from and where they might lead. In a participation economy people want not services and goods, delivered to them, but tools so they can take part and places in which they can play, share, debate with others...They could change not just the way that the media, software and entertainment works but also the way we organise education, health care, cities and indeed the political system."
